Monday, November 29, 1999

Thousands bid farewell to Shekhawat

Jaipur, May 16 (ANI):Thousands of people,including senior politicians bid a tearful adieu to late former Vice president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Sunday as his funeral procession began from his home,and passed through key areas of Jaipur.Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party like Lal Krishna Advani,Arun Jaitley,and Narendra Modi along with party president Nitin Gadkari paid tribute to the leader, who died in Jaipur's SMS hospital on Saturday. He was 87 years old and was suffering from lung infection.